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Genealogy research is interesting (at least for me) and one finds out some very surprising things. NBC is helping with genealogy research for several well-known personalities and I’m sure that this series will pique some interest in searching for one’s roots. Think of Roots by Alex Haley . . .

As Sarah Jessica Parker learns about her family from various genealogical researchers, she exclaims “WOW!” more times than I could count. That is how anyone who is researching their heritage feels when a new and surprising fact is unearthed.

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Elwell ancestors (Samuel Elwell and Esther Dutch) were living in Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials. It was amazing all the information professionals dug up about Parker’s ancestors.

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts (a brief account about Parker’s ancestor Osmond Dutch):

“Anthony Day, aged about forty years, deposed that he heard John Meagus threaten Osmond Dutch that if he came into the stage any more to fetch cods more than his own share, he would make his heels fly higher than his head, and would throw him over the stage head. Sworn Sept. 26 , 1664, before Samuel Symonds.”

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Throw off the bowlines

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain

life is this simple

Life is this simple.

Life is this simple.
We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent
and God is shining through it all the time.
This is not just a fable or a nice story
It is true.
If we abandon ourselves to God
and forget ourselves,
we see it sometimes
and we see it maybe frequently.
God shows Godself everywhere,
In everything,
In people and in things and in nature and in events.
It becomes very obvious that God is everywhere and
in everything and we cannot be without God.
It is impossible.
The only thing is that we don't see it.
- Thomas Merton